Latin Music Heaven
June 15th, 2009 Posted in Boogaloo, Latin Soul, Musica Latina Store, SalsaThis post is dedicated to Musica Latina, an amazing all-Latin music store that specialized mostly in vinyl and was located firmly in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. A place where I spent many hours in shelf after shelf (ceiling-high) of Latin 45’s, soaking up the artifacts of a music scene that went down on the opposite coast from San Francisco. Sadly, Musica Latina closed last year and I have been suffering withdrawals ever since. Expect to see many more posts on Musica del Alma that draw from the great stuff I found there.
The Nelson Feliciano track is a Salsa monster that gets me every time when the horns build back up after the piano breakdown. Beautiful stuff. “Delusion” is a perfect example of New York Latin Soul/Boogaloo.
Nelson Feliciano/ Kito Velez- “Me Duele El Corazon”
From the 7″ (Coco, 1973)
Ray Rodriquez & His Orchestra- “Delusion”
From the 7″ (Alegre, 1968)
gracias!
thank’s man. keep uploading
love it, thanks!
Delusion is just amazing, thanks for the post! Much appreciated
Musica Latina was a great store. Just today, as I walked past the Christian shop that sits where half of ML used to be, I almost shed a tear. Amoeba SF has a bunch of the left over 45s from Musica Latina in the “International” boxes. Besides vinyl, ML was one of the only legitimate independent Latino cd stores in the city along with Discolandia on 24th street. I noticed ML had a few selections from Coco Records.. but Alegre? nice find.
Thanks for the great tunes.
thanks for the Orquesta de Savinon…straight fire!!
Eavemaria hermano… that first track is ridiculous. Keep up the amazing work!